Hello! This week I will be hosting LeadDev NY for the fourth straight year. It’s rapidly becoming one of my favorite habits, because I get to think about what engineering leadership is—and what engineering is and what leadership is.

KAYFABE METER IS OFF THE CHARTS

To give credit where it's due as I dip my toe back in here, I'm following my good friend Mandy's approach to social publishing, about coming home to the web and stepping out of the stream. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/coming-home

On the inevitability narrative and what it more or less directly says about the lives of the few hundred people I passed on my way to work today: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-apocalypse-is-for-the

If you're seeing this, you're watching the progress of my solving the dilemma of how to think out loud without scrolling through my social media feeds. I'll let you know how it goes.

conclave is sudden death tiebreaker but for organized religion

I rode my bike into Manhattan today, and while my experience is a sample size of 1, the traffic I observed (and rode in) was significantly lower than almost any other Monday in the last year or so. It was, for me, a glorious ride. #congestionpricing

miette best cupcake

“monterey and carmel are just south florida but they like trees more” ha yeah send that

Once again: The postal service can “lose money” no more than the U.S. military can. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

As somebody who rides in Manhattan traffic nearly every day, it’s hilarious to me that people who have to drive into the city think that what they are experiencing on the streets RIGHT NOW is even slightly preferable to congestion tolling. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/n...

My seven-year-old’s school ran out of paper last week.

Who here, when they were a child, were ever given pepsi syrup as a remedy for stomachache?

root beer dum dum best dum dum

The best thing about @choire.bsky.social’s newsletter is that I really cannot tell if this is intentional or not.

This is truly a night to hate the city I live in. Bad vibes everywhere.

Also! I just opened this app for the first time in like two months, and I think I sharply underestimated the degree of vibes.

I have two weeks to prepare a conference talk and I have entered the “reading Jung” phase. The difference between 2023 me and 2013 me is that I know this puts me squarely on target and so I am not curling up in a ball to weep.

the thing about me is that when you put me at a big open party, i just walk around aimlessly, constantly pretending to have recognized somebody. i need lots of little tiny rooms to hide in to make random conversation. i am treating this era of network competition as the cure for context collapse.

The most New York thing ever is to spend an hour listening to the entire population of the beach debate whether or not it is time to leave the beach because of the obvious storm.

nobody’s talking about the fact that curly fries are both a shape and a flavor, and we can only ignore that for so long

My six-year-old child thinks the Dark Lord of the Sith's name is DOG BADER and you all have to promise me that you'll never correct her.

*takes sudden, desperate gulp of air, looks around in panic* oh christ another one